[?]: See that? That’s what you get for opposing Chancellor Dong Zhuo!
{sfx: pa}

{gasp~}

[?]: Geezer! You think we men of Dong Zhuo are pushovers?

{sfx: pa}

AHH~

[?]: Imperial Han is plagued by war and strife! The Yellow Turbans may have been removed, but then the warlords rose up to oppose the court. Now is the time to show our loyalty to our country!

[?]: Louder.
[Liu Bei]: Today, I, Liu Bei, come to raise funds on behalf of Chancellor Dong Zhuo! To show appreciation for the court!(“…liu xuan de…”, I heard a fan critique that ancient Chinese do not self-reference by their courtesy name, so I might sometimes change it back to their regular name if I remember this tidbit)

[?]: That’s Liu Bei? Shit, he became Dong Zhuo’s dog!

[?]: Scram!
[?]: Don’t rob me!

[?]: They say Liu Bei is a nice guy, but my eyes tell me differently!(“…today see him instead like this morality”)
[?]: There will always be scumbags exploiting a country during hard times. Sigh!

[?]: Who’s whispering? Come out!

HUFF~

[?]: Dong Zhuo’s men were inhumane on their way to the capital! They deserve to die!
[?]: You claim blood relation to the Imperial clan and yet you side with that cruel traitor!

[GY]: The common folks are the only ones who suffer during chaotic times.

[GY]: If our big brother hadn’t raided Jingyang in Dong Zhuo’s name, the people there wouldn’t have hated Dong Zhuo to the bone.

[GY]: Then they wouldn’t have poured their heart out to the Guandong Alliance.

[?]: Their warm welcome would dissuade the Guandong Alliance from robbing them, thus saving their lives.

[?]: If they were raided, their city will look just like this!
[?]: That’s the cost of war. There are no good guys or bad guys.

[?]: Sooner or later, the people of Jingyang will understand our big brother’s intention.

[?]: There is only one man in the world who you’ll thank for robbing you…
[?]: Such is our big brother’s charm!

[?]: While I… can only play the villain.

[GY]: Don’t feel bad for that Grand Administrator. What’s a little beating compared to the luxury he always enjoyed?(“…compared to poor people, he high rank high salary…”)

[GY]: Rob one city to save two.
[GY]: There is nothing stranger than this.

[?]: Yes. This kind of weird idea

[?]: can only be conjured up by our “foolish” big brother.
{flag reads: Liu}

Many years later, there were all kinds of criticism levied against this man named “Liu Bei”. They said he stole major cities of Xuzhou and Jingzhou to use as his military base. But the strange thing is…

people of all social status in those cities appreciated him and had no complaint about what he did. Was he a bandit? Or a king? Only the future generations have a say in the matter…